Interactive transparency rendering for large CAD models

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 584-594

  Jianbing, Huang ^a,b   Carter, Michael B ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UGS PLM Solutions   (United States)

Author keywords

BSP; Depth sort; Transparency rendering; Triangle sorting

Indexed keywords

BINARY SPACE PARTITION (BSP); DEPTH SORTS; TRANSPARENCY RENDERING; TRIANGLE SORTING; VISUAL INSPECTIONS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SORTING;

TRANSPARENCY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 25644437829     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2005.82     Document Type: Article

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